Courtyards, Markets, City Streets : Urban Women In Africa / / by Kathleen Sheldon

• Autore: Sheldon Kathleen
• Pubblicazione: Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, , 2018
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 342 p. ) : map
• Disciplina: 305.4/096
• Soggetto topico: Urban women - Africa
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Part 1: Introduction. -- Urban African women: courtyards, markets, city streets / Kathleen Sheldon -- ; Part 2: Migration and urbanization. -- South African women and migration in Umtata, Transkei, 1800-1935 / Sean Redding -- Transitions in Kenyan patriarchy: attempts to control Nairobi area traders, 1920-1963 / Claire C. Robertson -- Three generations of Hausa women in Kaduna, Nigeria, 1925-1985 / Catherine M. Coles -- ; Part 3: Courtyards: marriage, family, and housing. -- Washing dirty laundry in public: local courts, custom, and gender relations in postcolonial Lusaka / Karen Tranberg Hansen -- Can polygyny be avoided in Dakar? / Philippe Antoine and Jeanne Nanitelamio -- Health, gender relations, and poverty in the AIDS era / Brooke Grundfest Schoepf -- Moving and coping: women tenants in Gweru, Zimbabwe / Miriam Grant -- ; Part 4: Markets: work and survival. -- Women in business: class and Nairobi's small and medium-sized producers / Dorothy McCormick -- ; Beyone simple survival: women microentrepreneurs in Harare and Bulawayo, Zimbabwe / Mary Johnson Osirim -- Prostitution, a petit-métier during economic crisis: a road to women's liberation? The case of Cameroon / Paulette Beat Songue -- ; Part 5: City streets: politics and community. -- 'I am with you as never before': women in urban protest movements, Alexandra Township, South Africa, 1912-1945 / John Nauright -- Urban women's movements and political liberalization in East Africa / Aili Mari Tripp.
• Sommario/riassunto: Although women have long been active residents in African cities, explorations of their contributions have been marginal. This volume brings women into the center of the urban landscape, using case studies to illustrate how womens work in trade and agriculture has been the foundation of African urbanization. Chapters focus on patterns of migration and urbanization, womens employment in varied activities from selling crafts to managing small businesses, the emergence of complex new family formations, and participation in community and political activities. Although women have long been active residents in African cities, explorations of their contributions have been marginal. This volume brings women into the center of the urban landscape, using case studies to illustrate their contributions to family, community, work, and political life.The book begins with a rich introduction that discusses how womens work in trade and agriculture has been the foundation of African urbanization. The contributors then focus on patterns of migration and urbanization, with an emphasis on the personal and social issues that influence the decision to migrate from rural areas; womens employment in varied activities from selling crafts to managing small businesses; the sometimes unavoidable practice of prostitution when options are limited ; the emergence of complex new family formations deriving from access to courts and the continued strength of polygyny; and womens participation in community and political activities. The volume includes material from all regions of sub-Saharan Africa and brings together scholars from all the social sciences.
• Titolo autorizzato: Courtyards, Markets, City Streets
• ISBN: 0-367-31525-4; 0-429-98087-6; 0-429-96979-1; 0-429-50124-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996248019303316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: ACLS Humanities E-Book.